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HAUPT v. UNITED STATES

No. 85.

254 U.S. 272 (1920)

41 S.Ct. 66

65 L.Ed. 266

HAUPT v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 6, 1920.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Benjamin Carter, with whom Mr. George Ramsey was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Daniel L. Morris, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Assistant Attorney General Davis and Mr. Edward G. Curtis, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.

Aransas Pass is an inlet, naturally too shallow for ocean navigation, connecting the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and those of Aransas Bay and the Bay of Corpus Christi on the coast of Texas. The problem of obtaining a navigable channel through this Pass occupied the attention of the Government and of private enterprise for many years prior to 1912, when a channel of...

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